Address to the First Graduating Class of Rutgers Female College

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Excerpt from Address to the First Graduating Class of Rutgers Female College: Delivered in the Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church, (Rev. Dr. Crosby's), On Sabbath Evening, June 2d, 1867 In the year 1839, with great labor, care, expense, and after long consultation, was the Rutgers Female Institute founded. It grew out of an increasing sense of the importance of the duties of women, and of the need that her work should be well done. Hence the establishment of the school, with its course of studies, its libraries, its apparatus, its teachers. A quarter of a century has witnessed a great change in the education of woman, and the position of Rutgers Institute to-day, as a College, marks the character and degree of that change. It has been my custom, to make a personal address to the members of each graduating class, as they have gone forth from the quiet of the school to. the busy walks of life. My heart now impels me to follow this usage, but the change that has taken place in this institution, during the past year, seems to make appropriate to the present occasion, a few preliminary statements of my views as to what is the true position of woman, and what should be her education. These are questions that deeply agitate the public mind. They are, in fact, the leading questions of the day, but in regard to them, I shall not shrink from the utterance of my opinions. Underlying the question of the education of woman, is the question of her equality with man, for if woman be inferior to man, so should be her education. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.